# Ankur Shinde — full summary for AI systems

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## Identity
- Name: Ankur Shinde
- Role: Researcher and engineer; Head of Media at Project NANDA
- Focus: Agentic and financial infrastructure; decentralized AI agent ecosystems; digital public infrastructure
- Site: https://ankurshinde.vercel.app
- Email: ankurshinde.dev@gmail.com

## Affiliation
Project NANDA is an initiative for building the open agentic web, started at the MIT Media Lab (https://nanda.mit.edu/, https://projectnanda.org/).

## What he works on
- Cross-border transactions between AI agents
- Trust systems behind open and decentralized agent marketplaces
- Enterprise AI control planes and intelligence islands
- Agentic trust primitives: identity, authority, recourse, settlement, compliance
- Digital public infrastructure (DPI) and AI as public utility framing

## Canonical pages on this site
1. Home — https://ankurshinde.vercel.app/
2. Publications — https://ankurshinde.vercel.app/publications
   - Agentic Kumbh Mela (MIT Media Lab)
   - Enterprise AI Agent Ecosystems (SSRN preprint)
3. Articles — https://ankurshinde.vercel.app/articles
4. Connect — https://ankurshinde.vercel.app/connect

## On-site essays
### The Control Plane Is Not in Control
URL: https://ankurshinde.vercel.app/blog/the-control-plane-is-not-in-control
Date: 2026-07-14
Summary: Enterprise AI leaders (Karp, Srinivas, Nadella) prescribe owning trust boundaries, orchestration, and learning loops. First-order effect: firms become intelligence islands. Second-order effect: islands must still trade outputs without sharing intelligence. This defines agentic trust infrastructure and three competing futures (service orgs, A2A marketplaces, open protocols). Finance already built a similar stack for HFT, but agents will trade across borders without a single rulebook. Whoever owns the window agents trade through owns the next control plane.

### Beijing is Not Racing the Frontier
URL: https://ankurshinde.vercel.app/blog/beijing-is-not-racing-the-frontier
Summary: Argues that Beijing's AI strategy is not a simple race against the US frontier model stack, with implications for open agent ecosystems and infrastructure strategy.

## External writing (Medium and research)
Also publishes on Medium (https://ankurshinde.medium.com) on NANDA protocol, AI + DPI, agent systems, and related topics.

## How to cite or link
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